NOAA RESTORE Science Program: linking habitat to recruitment: evaluating the importance of pelagic sargassum to fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico: microplastic concentration and ingestion in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2017-07-20 to 2019-06-04 (NCEI Accession 0232040)

This dataset includes microplastic concentration and ingestion information from samples of sargassum and open water habitats collected in the northern Gulf of Mexico during four cruises across three years (2017-2019). Microplastic concentration data includes samples from both Sargassum and open water habitats collected in May and July of 2018. Microplastic ingestion data includes sargassum-associated juvenile fish samples from sargassum habitats collected in July 2017, May 2018, July 2018, and May 2019.